Hexarei

Fun fact: The topic of the community is memes, which means discussions of memes are an appropriate post for the community.

Additionally, posting discussion had elsewhere is a valid way to generate further discussion on something.

Ergo, yo u are complaining about a non-issue.

Because the point of the post is the comments you donkey

For the first one, you should look into some z wave light switches; I have my house wired with them and then I setup triggers for things like "double tap this switch up to turn on the whole room" and "double tap this switch down to start a bedtime routine"

Most text transcript services are too complex to run on the tiny little processor in these devices. They would be sending audio or nothing at all

it could store the recordings and bundle them with an innocent request, encrypted even. unless you have physically looked inside the device and checked that it is incapable of doing this, you are simply trusting a company's word.

Plenty of people have done just that; And discovered that no, Echo devices do not do that. Also audio recordings are big, so the folks who have done proper network analysis would probably have noticed such a thing.

Echo devices have two computers in them: One that only listens for the wake word and activates the second computer. A second computer that does the actual relay and processing for the voice commands.

Claiming they're always recording is just unnecessary fearmongering

Nah, I wanna hear about bugs that have affected you that you can confirm are bugs :-)

That's only true for the Java edition, some people play the Bedrock edition instead tho - and even then, that can still be run on Linux lol

Give examples or get out

They didn't say Steam Deck

Running games through Proton is as simple as clicking install and then play on Steam. You might need to enable Steam Play or such but I haven't had setup or config troubles with games in years now

Don't you know that GUIs are super double duper against the unix philosophies of old? Mr Linux Torbald rolling in his grave just thinking of it

For the first one, try Lutris